The calendar is getting ready to flip to September and the weather has been in a rush to get to the new month. We know you can smell the pumpkin spice and those spooky, scary skeletons are telling you its time to be brought out of the closet.
Thankfully, the weather this weekend isn’t so spooky. Here are the weather stories we’re watching as we get to the end of August:
(11:29 a.m. EDT) First The Dust, Now The Rain
From staff writer Renee Straker:
After a dust storm tore through Burning Man on Monday, festivalgoers who toughed it out are now trudging through a dangerous, muddy mess caused by heavy rain.
The Reno Gazette-Journal reports that a man at the festival was electrocuted Tuesday during storms. The man was flown to a trauma center but no update on his condition was provided.
Organizers have repeatedly shut down gates into the festival because of the heavy rain, creating miles of traffic in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.
(11:05 a.m. EDT) Weather Stories Roundup
Here are some of the stories we’ll be talking about today:
– Have you heard of super fog? A National Weather Service Office in Montana issued an unusual warning for it this morning.
– Many of us continue to experience False Fall in the east, but the pattern also led to some flooding in the Central US.
– At last, college football is back!
– From fires in wine country to dusty, then muddy conditions at Burning Man, we’re looking at some wild weather in the West.
– Twenty years ago, one of the most dire warnings that the National Weather Service has ever issued was sent out before Katrina’s landfall. We continue our week-long look back at the hurricane that changed history.
(11:00 a.m. EDT) Why The Gulf Is Closed Ahead Of Labor Day
From senior writer Chris DeWeese:
This time of year is notorious for Gulf hurricanes. However, we aren’t expecting any tropical impacts in the Gulf through at least the first week of September. The reason why? An eastern trough that should steer any systems moving west across the Caribbean or Atlantic up to the north and then northeast.